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The bogus referendum squad

Sunday’s referendum in Crimea would not have been complete as an exercise in sham democracy without the attendance of some members of European Parliament.

Fortunately for Vladimir Putin, there were a few self-sacrificing MEPs ready to come to his aid – willing travellers as well as fellow travellers, as long as someone else is paying.

Take a bow, then, Tatjana Ždanoka, an ethnic-Russian Green from Latvia; Fabrizio Bertot, from Italy’s centre-right; Charalampos Angourakis, from Greece’s hard left; Béla Kovács of Hungary’s Jobbik party; and Ewald Stadler, from Austria’s far-right. They ventured forth where no electoral observer from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe was allowed to go.